Brad Pitt Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Brad Pitt
I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling. — Brad Pitt
I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals. — Brad Pitt
Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment — Brad Pitt
When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up. — Brad Pitt
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. — Brad Pitt
We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home — Brad Pitt
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. — Brad Pitt
At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled ... until the next. — Brad Pitt
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss ... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all. — Brad Pitt
I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor. — Brad Pitt
It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses. — Brad Pitt
What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever. — Brad Pitt
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier. — Brad Pitt
My affliction has been ... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it. — Brad Pitt
Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. — Brad Pitt
We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says. — Brad Pitt
This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done? — Brad Pitt
It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage. — Brad Pitt
I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective. — Brad Pitt
The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those. — Brad Pitt
I didn't understand this idea of a God who says, "You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I'm the best, and then I'll give you eternal happiness. If you won't, then you don't get it!" It seemed to be about ego. I can't see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me. — Brad Pitt
I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side. — Brad Pitt
I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself. — Brad Pitt
Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment. — Brad Pitt
I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be
cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world,. — Brad Pitt
The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. — Brad Pitt
Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we'll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit. — Brad Pitt
To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous. — Brad Pitt
Any love involves loss, and that's the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I'm with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary. — Brad Pitt
There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww, gross!' But we demand it. — Brad Pitt
My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back. — Brad Pitt
I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. — Brad Pitt
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. — Brad Pitt
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all — Brad Pitt
I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with some of my favourite films that might relate to this [The Assassination of Jesse James] film in terms of cadence like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or McCabe & Mrs Miller or Days of Heaven. I found them 10 to 20 years after they were made. — Brad Pitt
Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night. — Brad Pitt
Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality. — Brad Pitt
I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some. — Brad Pitt
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right. — Brad Pitt
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. — Brad Pitt
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life. — Brad Pitt
America is not a country, it's a business. — Brad Pitt
I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. — Brad Pitt
So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done. — Brad Pitt
Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect. — Brad Pitt
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. — Brad Pitt
I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment. — Brad Pitt
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. — Brad Pitt
My family worry for me because I'm gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire. — Brad Pitt
If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right? — Brad Pitt
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. — Brad Pitt
The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive! — Brad Pitt
We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need. — Brad Pitt
You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous. — Brad Pitt
Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day. — Brad Pitt
You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop. — Brad Pitt
Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition. — Brad Pitt
I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself. — Brad Pitt
Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders. — Brad Pitt
I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private. — Brad Pitt
I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform. — Brad Pitt
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. — Brad Pitt
I know some of these guys who are in that 'stalkerazzi' world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. That's another breed. They have their heroes who got the big, scandalous shot, which just promotes more of that. — Brad Pitt
I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me. — Brad Pitt
I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. — Brad Pitt
I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't. — Brad Pitt
I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either. — Brad Pitt
To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving. — Brad Pitt
Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far. — Brad Pitt
I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there. — Brad Pitt
Depression is not interesting to watch. — Brad Pitt
I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I'll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur. — Brad Pitt
New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities. — Brad Pitt
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same. — Brad Pitt
It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect ... You know, I'm in. — Brad Pitt
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life. — Brad Pitt
Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing. — Brad Pitt
America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong. — Brad Pitt
Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life. — Brad Pitt
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?' — Brad Pitt
Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways. — Brad Pitt
You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time. — Brad Pitt
It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we can be sharing a pint. We continually devolve into conflict, no matter how much we evolve. — Brad Pitt
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from. — Brad Pitt
The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at. — Brad Pitt
I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life. — Brad Pitt
You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. — Brad Pitt
I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there. — Brad Pitt
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day. — Brad Pitt
Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed. — Brad Pitt
You are not the car you drive. — Brad Pitt
I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination. — Brad Pitt
You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny. — Brad Pitt
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish. — Brad Pitt
I embrace the messiness of life, I find it so beautiful actually. — Brad Pitt